Author: La Tabla/Data Journalism Platform November 18, 2025
A detailed analysis of the “Freedom Manifesto” by María Corina Machado uncovers its role as a political tool aimed at dismantling the Venezuelan constitutional state and subordinating national sovereignty to U.S. geopolitical interests.
The document openly promotes the PRIVATIZATION OF PDVSA by suggesting to “return oil exploitation to the ingenuity of free men and women,” blatantly violating Articles 12 and 302 of the Constitution which establish irrevocable state ownership of hydrocarbons.
Simultaneously, it proposes the Dismantling of the SOCIAL STATE enshrined in Article 2 of the Constitution, replacing it with a deregulated market economy model that would sacrifice the social rights of the Venezuelan people.
The manifesto also includes an ATTACK ON THE NATIONAL ARMED FORCE, promising its “total reform” under an optimal party policy, disregarding its professional nature and its constitutional mandate to defend sovereignty (Article 328).
These proposals dangerously align with the agenda of the U.S. administration, which maintains military operations in the Caribbean and seeks to control Venezuelan energy resources. Machado pledges to transform Venezuela into the “energy pillar of the western hemisphere,” an objective that coincides with Washington’s geopolitical interests.
In the face of the constitutional reform process led by the Venezuelan state through established legal mechanisms, this manifesto stands as an unconstitutional program that would sacrifice national independence and hand over sovereignty over our strategic resources to foreign powers.